
Episode 124: Berlin-Brandenburg Airport
Well There‘s Your Problem
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The Berlin Altebau
In 1923, the first airport in Berlin opens. And this is built at a moment when the whole city of Berlin is being built. Basically Berlin is built way after all of your other European capitals. So it's always as if it synthesizes a kind of romantic past looking nationalism with a forward looking revolutionary fervor and an attempt to create a kind of like temple of futurism along ancient line of German identity. Who would have done that? The airport terminal that kills you instantly.
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